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Child Nutrition and WIC

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The Community Eligibility Provision allows schools in high-poverty areas to offer nutritious meals to all students at no charge. Find out more about how community eligibility is helping to make sure that children are fueled up and ready to learn.

Policy Basics

The School Lunch and School Breakfast programs provide free and reduced-price meals to 22 million low-income school children, while WIC provides nutritious food for 8 million low-income women, infants, and children. We promote efforts to increase school meal participation for low-income children through tools like the Community Eligibility Provision, which allows schools in poor neighborhoods offer free breakfast and lunch to all students. We also work to ensure that policymakers provide adequate funding for WIC to reach all eligible beneficiaries.